Elvises, gin, showgirls — it’s over to you, wife

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Oscar Goodman, the Mayor of Las Vegas, with his wife Carolyn, who hopes to succeed him

Will PaviaNew York

Published at 12:01AM, February 4 2011

For more than a decade, Las Vegas has been represented by a man who drinks neat gin and seldom appears in public without a partially clothed showgirl and an Elvis impersonator. Until this week, it seemed as if this glorious era was at an end: city laws would not permit Oscar Goodman, the “happiest mayor in the world”, to stand for a fourth term.

Supporters of Mr Goodman, 71, have now been given new hope, as his wife has just announced that she will stand to succeed him.